It seems that from a hiring manager point of view the logic is this: -Good people are hard to find -If I find a good person, I snap them up right away -Other

It seems that from a hiring manager point of view the logic is this: -Good people are hard to find -If I find a good person, I snap them up right away -Other hiring managers in my industry probably do the same -If someone hasn't been working for 6 months they've probably been on a bunch of interviews -In those interviews, no one thought the candidate was good enough to hire -Odds are the candidate probably isn't worth hiring Real world example, one of my co-workers was hired less than a week after his large corporate investment bank employer collapsed. Main reason was that it was obvious that he was smart, hard working and organized.